4.06 avg rating — 165,105 ratings

"Gradually-increasing sense of dread, off-stage violence, page-turning premise"

4.41 avg rating — 44,038 ratings

"touching story, and as unlike horror as you can get while still remaining in the genre"

3.88 avg rating — 12,875 ratings

"Personal favourite: touching, moving, exciting, with a dreamlike tone"

3.81 avg rating — 416,326 ratings

"mid-century classic, great writing"

3.89 avg rating — 14,472 ratings

"an unusual foray into the genre, well-written, spooky"

3.89 avg rating — 59,942 ratings

"slightly sci-fi-ish, but the general effect is the slow ramping-up of unsettling horror"

3.79 avg rating — 2,887 ratings

"extremely fun premise, carried out expertly
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3.90 avg rating — 313,089 ratings

"disturbing, great writing"

3.88 avg rating — 6,849 ratings

"unlike anything else, extremely creepy, outrageous premise"

4.04 avg rating — 975 ratings

"a collection of short stories many of who fit, others are just odd and likely to appeal to the same audience"

4.03 avg rating — 1,525,819 ratings

"Victorian genre-defining novel with lots of Horror! but very little actual gore"

3.91 avg rating — 84,355 ratings

3.89 avg rating — 21,862 ratings

3.58 avg rating — 11,850 ratings

"a pre-Lovecraftian horror, weird and intense"

3.78 avg rating — 97,191 ratings

3.47 avg rating — 1,979 ratings

"lengthy, dense, unforgettable early horror/sci-fi post-apocalyptic fantasy"

3.69 avg rating — 1,463 ratings

4.14 avg rating — 236,828 ratings

3.63 avg rating — 7,809 ratings

3.82 avg rating — 139,424 ratings

"not a true story, but a riveting imitation of one"

4.05 avg rating — 41,408 ratings

4.13 avg rating — 1,971,435 ratings

"Oscar Wilde elegantly assays the genre"

3.59 avg rating — 1,858 ratings

"claustrophobic horror"

3.59 avg rating — 2,467 ratings

"atmophere for days"

3.38 avg rating — 186,118 ratings

"Classic genre novel, unreliable narrator (or is she?)"

3.64 avg rating — 183,187 ratings

3.64 avg rating — 132,774 ratings

3.09 avg rating — 15,112 ratings

3.73 avg rating — 6,306 ratings

4.09 avg rating — 80,888 ratings

3.78 avg rating — 176,442 ratings

3.86 avg rating — 221,054 ratings